Aux Délices des Bois Black and White Truffle Butter
$29.99 + $5 shipping
CONDITION: Creamy
PRODUCTS:
1 8 oz Black Truffle Butter
1 8 oz White Truffle Butter

Product website
Product website

Previous offer:
12/16/10

...and I'm back

The last offering's feedback seems very good. I just don't see the benefit of using truffle butter and regular butter. That may a dumb statement, but will someone please enlighten my palate?

Cesare wrote:Aux Délices des Bois Black and White Truffle Butter
$29.99 + $5 shipping
CONDITION: Creamy
PRODUCTS:
1 8 oz Black Truffle Butter
1 8 oz White Truffle Butter

Product website
Product website

Previous offer:
12/16/10

...and I'm back

thank god

Will this butter be shipped in a special container that keeps it cold on route? ...because it is a dairy product.

Truely this is the end times.

wootaddict wrote:Will this butter be shipped in a special container that keeps it cold on route? ...because it is a dairy product.

it comes packaged nicely, with insulation and a frozen freezer pack. last time i got it, it arrived very cold and frozen.

I got this last time, and it was soooo yummy. I saved it for special occasions, but saved it too long and it went bad before I used it all.

Very yummy, though.

I still have one of the four from last offer. They are delicious, but i also use truffle salt with them in a dish to embolden the flavor. I used 1/3 of a container on a turkey and it came out wonderful. I'm pretty sure they were very cold on arrival with a cold pack insert. They keep well in the freezer, but after several months the truffle flavor does start to vanish.

I picked up a set last time and they arrived in great condition; froze them and enjoyed the hell out of both for months; the black in particular is insanely good, even (contrary to instruction) all melted with a really good bread. Have been haunting wine.woot ever since hoping for a do-over (after pricing truffle butter on the interwebs and damn near stroking out over the cost). In. For. Three.

Got some last time and my French wife said oui!

These are excellent.


In for 3 more!

Hooray for soy-free goodies! Thanks, woot, for including allergen info.

clcaruthers wrote:The last offering's feedback seems very good. I just don't see the benefit of using truffle butter and regular butter. That may a dumb statement, but will someone please enlighten my palate?

Looks like you are in for a great surprise. The butters are flavored with rare, exotic, and superbly aromatic truffles. The black has an earthy, almost musky flavor, and the white an intense, knock-your-socks-off flavor. These butters are different not just for flavor, but also in how they are incorporated into your meals. They are finishing butters - a swirl in mashed potatoes, a knob whisked into a pan sauce, a swipe on a bruschetta. These butters' aromas are released when heat is applied, but are too volatile to survive use as a cooking fat. Hungry yet?

wootaddict wrote:Will this butter be shipped in a special container that keeps it cold on route? ...because it is a dairy product.

Yes. Also, butter is a wonderful traveler, it can go from frozen to warm to melted to frozen again, without affecting its qualities. Remember the days before refrigeration?

bukzin wrote:Got some last time and my French wife said oui!

These are excellent.


In for 3 more!

Now she'll say oui oui oui!

Mominator wrote:I got this last time, and it was soooo yummy. I saved it for special occasions, but saved it too long and it went bad before I used it all.

Very yummy, though.

We do tuck in a note to toss it in the freezer when you get it, and it'll keep forever. You can use a little at a time or throw the whole container into a vat of mashed potatoes.

$71.50 on Amazon, but it comes with BACON!

http://www.amazon.com/Brunch-Rescue-Kit-Truffle-Butters/dp/B0023B7F5W

auxdelices wrote:Looks like you are in for a great surprise. The butters are flavored with rare, exotic, and superbly aromatic truffles. The black has an earthy, almost musky flavor, and the white an intense, knock-your-socks-off flavor. These butters are different not just for flavor, but also in how they are incorporated into your meals. They are finishing butters - a swirl in mashed potatoes, a knob whisked into a pan sauce, a swipe on a bruschetta. These butters' aromas are released when heat is applied, but are too volatile to survive use as a cooking fat. Hungry yet?

sold give this person a job

Oh gosh, absolutely!

Truffles? At $30? Truffles are some of the very best "finishing" in the world. And good truffle oils are worth their prices in gold.

I can only imagine, truffle butter. I think I am loving Wine.Woot (and its community) a lot more than Deals.Woot.

This is one classy offer. Nice!

ThunderThighs wrote:FYI, there's a Wine Cellar for sale on Home.Woot.

Butter on wine.woot and wine cellars on home.woot.....one of these things is not like the other . . .

auxdelices wrote:We do tuck in a note to toss it in the freezer when you get it, and it'll keep forever. You can use a little at a time or throw the whole container into a vat of mashed potatoes.

Are you guys the same folks that did the dried wild mushrooms here a few weeks back?

wootaddict wrote:Will this butter be shipped in a special container that keeps it cold on route? ...because it is a dairy product.

When I received mine in Los Angeles, the ice pack was very small and the product was room temperature when I got it. But it was still fine.

Butter Butter Butter Butter Butter Butter Butter Butter TRUFFLE TRUFFLE!

Bet this would make some killer popcorn!

Does this have the same amount of fat as regular butter? Is the only difference the truffles?

Also, do the calories differ than regular butter?

I don't see an ingredients list... is this vegetarian? I would presume so, but you never know...

This stuff is awesome.

ADdB also had some various "grilling butters" a while back that were not so great. Or at least, the one that was supposed to have black truffle, didn't. We just got a little log of plain butter.

cyclebex wrote:thank god

Are you Cesare's Mom? Why are you always so worried about him?

Look! Home woot today has a Haier Aficionado 12-Bottle Stainless Steel Wine Cellar

at last, for some people who were asking!

ThunderThighs wrote:FYI, there's a Wine Cellar for sale on Home.Woot.

Ahh, indeed. ha! That should stop the grumbling! Although I bet someone says you can get cheaper per-bottle ones.

It's funny: with the doors so thick in the niddle it looks like two 6-bottle coolers bolted together in the middle!

Off topic.
What are the chances of wine.woot selling the olio nuovo again this year?

last year's offering

I skipped, then took a gamble on the glowing recommendations of the balsalmic vinger four days later. It was so delicious I (a) bought more when it came up again this past Spring and (b) regretted missing the olive oil.

The supplier, Casa de Case, states that there is a limited supply (only one air shipment) and that it's arriving early this year.

harmonious2 wrote:Butter Butter Butter Butter Butter Butter Butter Butter TRUFFLE TRUFFLE!

Please stop badgering us.

Purchased last year - still using for special dishes a year later (a little goes a long way) - this is a must buy gang.

We received this last year around christmas time and it was mind blowing good. I used it new years eve on a risotto and can't wait to try another round. We don't have items like this in our po-dunk rural location where I reside, so I love offerings like this. It enriches my world without leaving my home!!!

To those unaware of the difference between black and white truffles: as auxdelices said, these are finishing butters, however, white truffles to lose a lot of their distinct characteristics when cooked, while black truffles do not. So the white truffles would be better for the previously mentioned mashed potatoes, but the black truffles would be the much better choice to finish a pan sauce.

TL;DR - lots of heat is the enemy of white truffles.

Hey
If we live in a state that doesn't allow wine to be shipped in the mail can we still buy the food on wine woot?

My wife really wants to get the truffle butters.

Thanks

auxdelices wrote:We do tuck in a note to toss it in the freezer when you get it, and it'll keep forever. You can use a little at a time or throw the whole container into a vat of mashed potatoes.

Well, in about 5 billion years or so, the Sun will turn red, expand and engulf the inner planets. I'm not convinced that even this delicacy will survive that.

harmonious2 wrote:Butter Butter Butter Butter Butter Butter Butter Butter TRUFFLE TRUFFLE!

I'd quite like to try this with

mushroom!

Yay! It's back! Gifted the black truffle butter last year and it was a huge success. Kept the white truffle butter for myself. Now I can finish up what's left in the freezer.

These are fantastic!

psm321 wrote:I don't see an ingredients list... is this vegetarian? I would presume so, but you never know...

Ingredients are high butterfat butter, truffles and mushrooms, salt and natural flavors. NO common allergens (except dairy-it IS butter!. No strange hydrolyzed proteins or unpronounceable chemicals. No meat by-products. NO kidding!